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Grant Spotlight: ASL trip to Gallaudet

By |2022-03-02T16:10:29+00:00March 20th, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

On March 15, forty ASL students toured Gallaudet University in Washington, DC with their teacher, Mrs. Carlisa Gunter.  Gallaudet is dedicated to the education of deaf and hard of hearing students.  A grant from the MLWGS Foundation covered the cost of bus transportation for students and chaperones.  "Thanks again for making this field trip possible for ASL students to enjoy and remember for years to come!" Mrs. Gunter wrote.  "Without the Foundation, it would be impossible."

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Math Modeling at the Baseball Hall of Fame

By |2022-03-02T16:52:09+00:00November 30th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Mr. Benesh's baseball math modeling students are back from their research trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY!  Students conducted research at the Giamatti Research Center, which is the foremost repository of baseball information, in all formats, in the world.  They were working on their papers that will address an aspect of the impact of baseball on America. Students research topics include: Labor relations and the 1994 baseball strike US and Cuba relations

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Grant Spotlight: Music Department Trip to New Orleans

By |2022-03-02T18:45:42+00:00April 27th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Every spring, orchestra and band teacher Karl von Klein organizes a trip open to any student taking a class within the music department.  This year, he is chaperoning students on a trip to New Orleans for the first weekend of this year's Jazz and Heritage Festival (aka Jazz Fest).  The Foundation provided a grant to reduce the cost of the trip for every student and provided additional financial aid to four students. Your support of

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Grant Spotlight: Frontier Culture Museum field trip

By |2022-03-02T19:32:57+00:00November 20th, 2017|Spotlight - Grants|

On November 13, 2017, social studies teacher Hana Voight took a group of her AP Human Geography students to the Frontier Culture Museum located in Staunton, VA.  The museum tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America, and of the life they created here for  themselves and their descendants.  The students saw firsthand the varieties of materials and methods used in constructing folk housing around the world, from the US

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